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Trying to install 20.04 from a flash drive into an HP ProDesk with a Toshiba SSD, alongside Win 10. All goes well until I get to a screen that tells me to disable the bitlocker manager. So I go to the system in Control Panel, as instructed, and it tells me bitlocker is not active. And that is where I am stuck. How do I get past this?

MrEd
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I faced the same scenario as I try to setup up the dual boot after having received a factory new dell laptop. Turned out for me that the "activation required" step simply is a UI stage as Windows wants me to savely store the recovery key on some media. After having done this and the "activation step" has been completed the device is shown to be encrypted without any processing. So the encryption was already in place, as the disk management and ubuntu both remark.

After activation the GUI shows the regular "device encrypted" screen and options so that the regular guides for decryption can be followed.

s10z
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https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/bitlocker/disable-bitlocker?view=win10-ps

So I have done this in Powershell :

Disable-BitLocker

Remove-BitLockerKeyProtector

Unlock-BitLocker

One of this 3 commands worked but I do not know witch one ?! After that I have seen that in Disk Management the drive is without the word Bitlocker . Then back to Ubuntu installation and it worked perfect and I could install Ubuntu 20.04 in a dual boot with Win 10 64

leonidaa
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If you are attempting to install Ubuntu and get stopped by bit locker, here is one solution: Install 'try ubuntu'. Goto applications and open gparted (you may have to type 'gparted' to do this. Reformat the hard disk to ext4, delete all but one partition, then expand that partition to the entire disk. Installing ubuntu is then straight forward.

Colin Wilson
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You don't need to mess with powershell to workaround this. You just need to activate bitlocker and then deactivate it. You can do this from within the UI as well. The problem is with bitlocker encrypting disks by default, even in "suspended" state, so in order to "disable" bitlocker you have to enable it first...

Haustorius
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